Can a uni reliably say someone has used ai to create their work?

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i personally don’t see how tbh

So then be honest. Why are you asking how they could possibly know, when you did it and only used it for spelling.

Show them your save history of the document to show you wrote it. Show them your whole conversation with ChatGPT to show it was only a spell check. Why can’t you do that? Did you make other changes?

That question sounds like more than just SPAG. If you said yes to it, you're in trouble.

Exams yes, but not unannounced on the spot ones. (Unless I misread the post I quoted, which is possible).

Sorry, but your latest update sounds like there's absolute proof of your use of it. So extra disappointing when students use it in their final year. Without wishing to make you feel worse, be prepared not to graduate with your class this summer.. At the very least, I'd have thought you will have to wait until the resubmission period to have another attempt - which in every HEI I've worked in, would mean you miss graduation this summer, and have to wait to graduate in the winter, or next summer.
It's a really hard lesson to learn, but there are standards of academic integrity that universities have to uphold, in order to award your degree.

Agree, especially in the final year. It'd be a capped August resubmission for us.

Out of interest, does your uni teach you how to use AI ethically to help appraise and check your work within the rules? I'm pretty sure spelling/language checking is allowed.

Yes and it is allowed for the purpose but I guess because I left the prompt in they are now checking if I used it for other reasons

What when I used it for spelling which is allowed?

Well no that doesn’t demonstrate you only used AI for grammar and spelling at all. It suggests your prompt was ‘tell me all about the effects on the English civil war on donkey ownership in 1500 words.’ Which it did, and then asked if you wanted to make it more academic which is fairly typical of what the AIs do.

Again - why would you use AI for SPAG when Word does it for you as you type?

I quite clearly did use it in acceptable way which I’m sure many others did to.

No is the short answer.

Although the fact that it’s asks you if you want it to be made more academic in style indicates you haven’t used it for that purpose yet.

Well it does as there is no prompt of it saying for example here’s a more academic response for example which if I had then it would say thav

If they find you used for more than just SPAG, then you’d be lucky to just get away with a capped resit. If you can prove to their satisfaction it was only used for SPAG, and in lines with their AI policy, then you’ll be fine.

You mean there is no such prompt THAT YOU ACCIDENTALLY LEFT IN THE ASSIGNMENT.

I think you're just arguing semantics now.

You've been caught.

It's whether they believe what you say.

But no wouldn't be surprised if this affects your graduation.

Given your SPAG on this thread, do you have a dyslexia diagnosis? If so, you should have been in touch with the disability office who could have advised re appropriate software. It seems you didn't do that. I remain dubious that it wasn't used to 'improve' your writing style.

Genuine question: how have you got to the final year of a degree without having mastered basic spelling & grammar. Why would you need AI?

Tbh I believe it’s because when I was child they were very focused on my physical handwriting that I missed out on other skills. I’m a lot better verbally and had an adult vocabulary at a young age age.

It wasn’t and surely if I had done that I would have been doing it all through my degree…

I do still have spelling errors etc even in the submitted work. Some of the spelling on this thread was after I had taken my night medication which affects my typing.

Not really if it says you can use ai for spelling etc and that’s what I’ve used it for why is it so bad that they know I’ve used it?

I know I’m not going to graduate in the summer anyway due to having a re sit.

yes but it wasn’t on indicating I had improved my writing style was it

Maybe that was a prompt you deleted. If you have an earlier version, you may be able to prove that.

Don’t get why you disbelieve me so much when you don’t even know me. I feel the fact I admitted how I used it right away to the lecturer shows I’m honest considering some people would just have lied and this was before I had worked out why…